Washington Report
The Washington Report offers NCSHA members a weekly update on the latest affordable housing developments in Washington, as well as NCSHA activities and HFA initiatives and innovations. To learn more about NCSHA, membership, or upcoming events, please contact us. We welcome media inquiries; please contact Lisa Bowman, Director, Marketing and Communications.
NCSHA Washington Report | March 28, 2025
Republicans on both sides of Capitol Hill are pressing the Trump Administration to affirm support for the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, after an ominously...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 21, 2025
Bill Pulte, the top regulator of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks, wants to “Make Mortgages Great Again,” and in his powerful position, which as of this week also...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 14, 2025
State housing finance agency CEOs, board members, and industry partners this week met with more than 150 members of Congress as part of NCSHA’s annual legislative conference. Advocacy efforts...
NCSHA Washington Report | March 7, 2025
Last week we noted the growing concern among multifamily housing finance players about the uncertainty federal funding delays and looming layoffs at HUD are causing. Similar worries are...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 28, 2025
Concerns are growing among apartment owners and industry analysts that delays in HUD funding and the prospect of significant layoffs in its financing arm, the Federal Housing Administration, may...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 21, 2025
So much is moving so fast inside the Beltway with such wide-ranging implications for housing that NCSHA would be organizing an urgent Capitol Hill fly-in for state housing finance agency leaders...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 14, 2025
It’s been an unsettling week for financial institutions whose businesses intersect with the activities of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, including many mortgage lenders, brokers,...
NCSHA Washington Report | February 7, 2025
A few days before the Senate confirmed Scott Turner as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development this week, Greg Abbott, governor of Turner’s home state of Texas, said...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 31, 2025
On Monday evening, the White House Office of Management and Budget directed federal agencies to “pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial...
NCSHA Washington Report | January 24, 2025
President Trump’s trip to the natural disaster zones in western North Carolina and Los Angeles today and the follow-ups from it should have a heavy housing focus. In North Carolina, the...
